Hye-Joon Yoon

The senalization of a relatively obscure writer's Scenes of Clerical Life in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine was crucial in the process of the transformation of Marian Evans, the reviewer of Westminster Review, into George Eliot, the author of best-sellers published by Blackwood and Sons. The immediate question that this change raises concerns the clear difference in political stance between the two periodicals, Westminster and Blackwood's, the former inheriting, albeit in a diminished form, the

Considering the crucial importance of introducing the history of Korean literature to the English-speaking world, without which no viable recognition of the value and significance of individual works of Korean literature is conceivable, one cannot come to the conclusion that what Peter H. Lee offers in his undoubtedly monumental and epoch-making A History of Korean Literature, remaining as it does as the only book of its kind, leaves yet much to be desired. The lack of a clear principle in divid

The Rhetoric of Tenses in Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" examines the tenses of the predicates in the famous and typical passages of the monumental work to explore the intricacies of the rhetoric and argument they support, paying particular attention to the question of temporality. Smith's subtle modulation of language attests to his reluctance to offer a mere theory of economics and to his refusal to ignore the complicated challenges history and actuality offer to his beliefs in the natur

The right to a fuller recognition of Virignia Woolf as a major critic of Empire and fascism yet merits renewed emphasis particularly in this conjuncture of the first years of a new century where renewed forms of old imperial projects of military invasion and wars of conquest forcibly remind us of the fatal importance of the 1930s as the pivotal decade of struggle between the fascist powers and the alliance of “progressive” forces, which so ominously paved the path for a twentieth century marked

Moderately answering Franco Moretti’s challenge to reject “close reading” in favour of “distant reading,” this paper presents factual aspects of the London publishing market, which deserves our attention as the matrix and field of the production of the novels, including the celebrated canonical works. Among the thriving sectors of London in the nineteenth century one can include the publishing and printing industry,which benefitted from more than a history of a continuously expanding free market

Despite the apparent poststructuralist consensus that the question of canon has been effectively dealt with by (critical) theory, which presumably dispelled the oppressive mysticism of the quasi-religious aura of the canonical classics, the less visible, concealed or repressed question of canonicity haunts contemporary critical theory, especially as it transforms itself into an academic institution replete with reading lists, curricula, readers, and degree-granting authority. Canon formations, f

Metropolis and Experience: Defoe, Dickens, Joyce offers a close reading of the major texts of Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce, in their respective historical contexts and in comparison with their intertextual companions, from seventeenth-century character pamphlets through Baudelaire to Calvino. In doing so, it challenges the quietist complacency of specialization prevalent in current academia to contribute to a critique of urban modernity in the tradition of Simmel, Benjamin, and Lefebvre. Taking its

The emergence and suppression of footnotes in early modern English literature constitutes the privileged moment in literary history allowing us to enjoy the spectacular confrontation between the objective forces of modern book market and the authorial self-consciousness of those taking part in it, which we characterize as an aesthetics of Hegelian "unhappy consciousness," of being at once in and above the levelling realm where "dunces" and hacks roam. Whereas the seventeenth-century marginal not

No national literary tradition can expect to gain recognition, much less respect, from other cultures without conveying to them a tangible sense of the "greatness" of those works forming its classical canon, which can never be achieved without a convincing and solid translation of the original. Ch’unhyangga, the p’ansori version of Ch’unhyangjŏn, whose importance and value few Koreans would contend, still waits to be given that favor of proper English translation, which, above all, has to do jus

19세기 초에 일련의 작품들을 통해서 18세기에 태동한 영국 사회소설 전통을 확립한 작가일 뿐 아니라 근래에 와서는 여성주의 문학의 선구자로 인식되고 있는 제인 오스틴(Jan Austen)의 대표적 장편소설 중, 첫번째로 발표된『지각과 감수성』(Sense and Sensibility, 1811)은『오만과 편견』(Pride and Prejudice) 등의 그녀의 다른 작품들과 마찬가지로 철저하게 결혼에 관한 소설이다. 첫째로는 물론, 소설의 주된 사건이 남자와 여자의 결혼이라는 문제에 집중되어있다는 면에서 그러하다. 그러나 보다 간접적인 비유적 의미에서도 이 작품은 결혼을 주제로 삼는다는 점, 즉 이 소설이 도덕성, 인격, 성격 등의 '정신적' 문제와 재산권의 향유와 이전이라는 '물질적' 관심을 서로 결합 내지는 결혼시켜 놓은 빼어난 작품이라는 면에서도 그러하다. 레이먼드 윌리엄즈(Raymond Williams)는 18세기 후반에서 19세기 초에 걸친 영국의 복잡한 사회사 및 정치사를

Yoon, Hye-Joon (2006). Joyce and France: The French Context of Ulysses. Foreign Literature Studies, 22, 95-114. Although the close affinity Joyce has with France and French literature is generally acknowledged, the precise link of his representative work Ulysses to French novels still needs to be spelled out with greater specificity. This link we locate in Édouard Dujardin’s Les Lauriers sont coupés, which, to judge from various biographical records and accounts, Joyce read and st

This paper goes into the details of English penal law relevant to the case of Magwitch. At common law, crime against property were considered capital crimes. Such rigidity being intolerable in the actual law courts, it became the judges’ responsibility to be prudent in passing on the sentence of death. Of the traditional measures of mitigation, benefit of clergy retained its importance as an administrative device, as is depicted in the case of Compeyson. Above all, transportation was adopted ext